Three similar comments at recent talks gave us something to think about on the subject of advertising and its future. Speakers from Mozilla, Anomaly, and Thrillist all have discussed the same notion: that they don’t spend money on advertising.
At the Influx Curated event in San Francisco recently, Paul Kim who runs Mozilla’s marketing, talked about how the tech company turned to the community to help get the word out about their products and organizing ‘download drives’ on certain days.
At the PSFK Conference NYC 09 Carl Johnson of Anomaly talked about the IP projects his agency develop. He told the audience [...]

Last Friday at the Art Directors Club in New York, Piers Fawkes of PSFK sat down for a panel discussion on contemporary collaboration with Mike Brown of Virgin Group, Ben Lerer, founder of Thrillist, Sam Lessin, CEO of drop.io, and Nate Westheimer, VP Product, anyClip.com & Organizer, NY Tech Meetup. The afternoon’s talk centered around creative collaboration in the realm of business and entrepreneurship, and how both creative individuals and business-oriented entities can profit from working around shared interests.

From the discussion emerged a common sentiment, introduced by Lerer, that smaller creative groups need to take advantage of and leverage what [...]